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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is still stranded in Delhi after his plane developed a technical sl-ag on September 10, the day when the G20 Summit ended. His replacement aircraft, which was on its way from Canada, was diverted to London. No reason was given for the unexpected diversion of the replacement aircraft. The replacement plane, which initially was routing through Rome on its way to Delhi, was diverted to London. The earliest the plane would leave London is early Tuesday morning (local time), the Canadian Prime Minister's Office (PMO) said.

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00:00 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is still stranded in Delhi after his plane developed
00:05 a technical snag on September 10, the day when the G20 summit ended.
00:09 His replacement aircraft, which was on its way from Canada, was diverted to London.
00:14 No reason was given for the unexpected diversion of the replacement aircraft.
00:18 The replacement plane, which initially was routing through Rome on its way to Delhi,
00:22 was diverted to London.
00:23 The earliest the plane would leave London is "early Tuesday morning local time," the
00:27 Canadian Prime Minister's office or PMO said.
00:30 Meanwhile, a technician with the replacement part of the Airbus plane that was grounded
00:34 in Delhi has been sent to India.
00:36 Trudeau can still board the Airbus plane if it meets all air safety regulations.
00:41 But if neither the Airbus plane nor the replacement flight are available, another jet would be
00:46 sent to Delhi to pick up Trudeau and his delegation.
00:48 However, this is not the first time the 34-year-old aircraft has developed a technical glitch.
00:54 In the past, there have been instances when the aircraft failed to perform its duties
00:58 because of an issue surrounding the mechanics.
01:01 Canadian PM Justin Trudeau's international trips are carried out by a CC-150 Polaris
01:06 aircraft.
01:07 The Canadian government has five CC-150 Polaris aircraft that perform the duties of transporting
01:13 military and government officers.
01:15 Among these, PM's aircraft was registration number 1501, has a VIP configuration and a
01:22 special livery specific to the Government of Canada.
01:25 It is worth mentioning that these aircraft are an average of age 30 years and are about
01:30 to be retired from the fleet.
01:31 They will be replaced with six Airbus A330 MRTTs or multi-role tanker transport over
01:38 a span of the next few years.
01:40 The Royal Canadian Air Force or RCAF acquired the five civilian Airbus A310-300 aircraft
01:47 in the early 1990s as part of the MRTT program, which had been ordered by Wardair in the late
01:54 1980s.
01:55 Three of the aircraft are employed as air-to-air refuelling tankers, while the remaining eight
02:00 are transport aircraft that fly passengers, freight and dignitaries all over the world.
02:06 Trudeau's aircraft has had a history of snags.
02:09 The 15001 veered away from maintenance personnel and hit a wall at CFB Trenton in 2019.
02:16 It was out of operation for 16 months while being repaired.
02:19 The damage to 15001's nose and engine cost $11 million.
02:24 Before that, in 2016, just 30 minutes after take-off, the plane's flap developed a snag,
02:29 forcing Trudeau to return to Ottawa, Canada's capital.
02:33 He was on his way to Brussels to clinch a free-trade agreement with the European Union
02:36 at the time.
02:37 Trudeau's main opponent, leader of the Conservative Party Pierre Poilivère, attacked the Prime
02:42 Minister for mismanagement.
02:44 Now Trudeau gets to experience the same flight delays he has imposed on Canadians through
02:48 his mismanagement of federal airports, he wrote on social media platform X.
02:53 Trudeau stayed in his room in New Delhi's Lalith Hotel after his Airbus plane developed
02:57 the snag amid frosty India-Canada ties.
03:00 India issued a tersely worded statement expressing strong concerns about continuing anti-India
03:05 activities of extremist elements in Canada on Sunday before secessionist group Six for
03:11 Justice (SFJ) arranged Khalistan referendum at a Gurudwara in British Columbia.
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